1 APRIL 1893, Page 3

Mr. Morley made a curious attempt on Wednesday to turn

an Irish private Member's Evicted Tenants Bill into a Govern- ment Bill by accepting its second reading on behalf of the Government, though conditioning for grave alterations in Committee (which would really have amounted to a change of 'principle in the Bill). If the Closure had been accepted by the Speaker when Mr. Sexton moved it, the effect would have been that Mr. Morley would have got through the second reading of a Bill such as Sir James Mathew's Commission was intended to lead up to, without any of the determined opposition which a Government Bill on that subject must necessarily have elicited. The Speaker, however, very properly refused to accept Mr. Sexton's motion for the Closure, and the debate was adjourned.